Hybrid Underwriting Manager – Farm

at QBE Insurance

• Job title: Underwriting Manager – Farm
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: No Education Requirement
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Australia

About the role

• Underwriting Manager leading strategic and operational initiatives for Farm Insurance at QBE. Providing expert guidance and developing high-performing underwriting teams.

Responsibilities

• Set and execute the underwriting strategy for the Farm portfolio, balancing growth, profitability, and risk appetite.
• Lead, coach, and develop a team of high performing underwriters, embedding strong leadership behaviours and underwriting discipline.
• Act as a key referral point, underwriting complex new business and supporting agents with pricing, risk assessment, and policy interpretation.
• Provide expert technical guidance across Farm Package insurance, including property, livestock, liability, and related farm risks.
• Develop, maintain, and uplift underwriting guidelines and governance frameworks, ensuring compliance with legal, regulatory, and internal standards.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with a national agent network, applying technical expertise to support portfolio performance, operational objectives, and the successful delivery of change initiatives, including platform modernisation.

Requirements

• Proven experience in Farm Package underwriting, or Business Package underwriting combined with strong practical exposure to the farming or rural sector.
• Demonstrated experience leading and developing underwriting teams.
• Strong understanding of risk assessment, portfolio management, and pricing principles, including the use of risk profiling and pricing tools.
• Practical farm or rural industry experience (e.g. living or working on a farm, agronomy, livestock, rural sales, agtech, or related fields) will be highly regarded.
• Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to influence, advise, and build trusted relationships with agents and internal partners.
• A commercial mindset, with a focus on delivering profitable and sustainable outcomes.

Benefits

• ‘Hybrid Working’ – a mix of working from home and in the office to enhance your work/life balance
• Free holistic wellbeing coaching, nutritional, confidential counselling, financial and legal advice
• 18 weeks’ gender-equal flexible leave for all new parents, including paid super